Install BigTree on CentOS 7

BigTree CMS is an open source content management system (CMS) built on PHP and MySQL. It is very extensible applications with user friendly interface and it is very easy to use. The latest version of BigTree CMS requires PHP version 5.3 or higher and MySQL version 5 or higher. BigTree is developed almost exclusively on the Apache web server but it can run on IIS 7 and 8 too. In this article we will guide you through the installation of BigTree CMS on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, PHP and MariaDB.

BigTree comes with tons of useful features such as:

Full WYSIWYG editor

Complete Code/Site Control

Powerful Core

Custom Image Sizing and Image Cropping

Integrated Analytics

Flexible Content Template

In-Page Editing

Service APIs

and many more

To start the installation, login to your CentOS 7 server as user root

ssh root@IP

and run the following command in your terminal to update all installed packages

yum -y update

Next, install Apache web server

yum -y install httpd

Once the installation of the web server is completed, start it and make it to start automatically on boot.

systemctl start httpd
systemctl enable httpd

BigTree is a PHP based application, so we need to install PHP with the ‘mysqli’ and the ‘gd’ extensions installed

Go to BigTree’s official website and download the latest version of the content management system. At the moment of writing this blog article it is version 4.2.11 Upload the downloaded ZIP archive to your server via FTP or sFTP. Once it is uploaded, unpack the archive to the document root directory of your server

Save the file and restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect.

systemctl restart httpd

With this step the installation from the command line is completed. Now, open a web browser and navigate it to http://yourdomain.com/install.php to run the web installer and follow the on-screen installation process to complete the BigTree CMS installation.

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